Posts by Melody Coven
Post-Postpartum Depression and the Inner-Strength It Took to Get There
The night I found out I was pregnant with my second, I began to cry. The tears were tears of happiness, excitement, but most of all, relief. I imagine that usually when people cry tears of relief at a pregnancy test, it’s often a reflection of a struggle with infertility. My struggle was something different…
Read MoreOn Flowing Love and Tears: A Window into Postpartum Depression
Photographed By: Tzvi Feifel “You’re going to feel love like you’ve never felt it before.” That’s what they told me. In those exact words and other iterations of it, that’s the message I had been receiving about what love after childbirth would feel like since, well, maybe my own birth. Having a baby would bring…
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